Former Pain Clinic Owner Arrested

Forty-four year old Ernest William Singleton, a former Kentucky pain clinic owner who operated in Georgetown and Dry Ridge, was arrested Monday in central Kentucky and charged with conspiracy to distribute Oxycodone and conspiracy to launder funds from October 2010 until this month. Attorney General Jack Conway's office says no doctors were named in the indictment, but state regulators have taken disciplinary action against five doctors affiliated with the two clinics. Singleton closed his pain management centers in Georgetown and Dry Ridge in Kentucky, and opened a clinic in Jeffersonville, Indiana after Kentucky lawmakers passed a bill last year to try to curtail prescription abuse.